Shutter-worker.



PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906. J. P. HURLEY.

SHUTTER WORKER. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 8, 1905.

JAMES P. HURLEY, OF CANANDAIGUA, NEW YORK SHUTTER-WORKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

Application filed December 8,1905. Serial No. 290,949.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES P. HURLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oanandaigua, in the county of Ontario and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Shutter-WVorker, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shutter-workers, and has for an object to provide a device of the class embodying new and improved fea tures of convenience, durability, simplicity, and efficiency.

A further object of the invention is to provide a shutter-worker embodying a bar pivoted to the hinge ofthe shutter and extend ing through the window-frame and carrying a latch pivoted thereon and movable in a horizontal frame and positioned to contact with the inner surface of the window-frame or a slotted plate secured thereon and whereby the shutter is held in a closed or an open position.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a shutter with the improved shutter-worker applied. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of a shutter and frame, taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1 and showing the improved shutter-worker in top plan. Fig. 3 is a view of the adjustable shutter-operating bar in edge elevation.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

In its preferred embodiment the improved shutter-worker forming the subject-matter of this application comprises a hinge having one leaf 10 arranged for attachment to a window-frame 11 and the other leaf 12 arranged for attachment to the shutter 13, and a cooperating hinge 14 is arranged to support the other end of the shutter.

To the pintle 15 of the hinge is rigidly or integrally secured a crank-arm 16, having a pin 17 parallel with and movable rotatably about the pintle 15. Upon the outside of the frame adjacent the hinge is secured a slotted plate 18, and a similar and registering plate 19 is secured upon the inside of the window frame or casing. 7

Through the window-frame and slotted plates extends an adjustable bar, composed of the sections 20 and 21, the sections 20 being pivotally engaged upon the pin 17 and the sections 21 terminating in any convenient or ornamental knob, as 22, within the house. The section 20 is provided with a longitudinal slot 23, and the section 21 carries a clamping-screw 24, whereby the sections 'may be rigidly adjusted at various combined lengths to operate in connection with windowframes of various thicknesses.

The bar-section 21 is provided with a latch 25, pivoted, as at 26, adjacent the knob 22 and movable about the pivot in a horizontal plane and so proportioned as to contact with and engage the plate 19 when the shutter is either open or closed.

With the parts assembled and disposed as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the shutter 13 is held in a closed position by the latch 25 holding the operating-bar and hinge-section 12 from movement. To open the shutter, the latch 25 is moved about its pivot 26, thus freeing the operating-bar, which is moved longitudinally outward, and if found necessary to carry the hinge beyond the dead-center the bar is used as a lever. When the hinge has passed the center, the bar is drawn inwardly, thus drawing the shutter back to fully-open position, and the latch again moved to engaging position.

It will be observed that the major surface of the bar is in a horizontal plane, whereby it offers the greatest resistance to bending when being used as a lever. It will further be observed that the latch 25 iscarried upon the top of the bar and movable in a horizontal plane, whereby it may be operated conveniently by the same hand which opens and closes the shutter, thus leaving the operator s other hand free to carry a lamp or other article or to hold aside curtains or draperies while the shutter is being operated.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is The combination with a window-frame having a passage therethrough; of a hingeleaf secured to the frame, a shutter adapted to swing into the frame, a hinge-leaf secured thereto, a pintle integral with said leaf and rotatably mounted within the first-mentioned leaf, a crank-arm integral with the ICC (low-frame to lock the shutter in a closed position, said latch being equal in width to the bar and therefore insertible into the passage.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 15 the presence'of two Witnesses.

JAMES P. HURLEY.

pintle and overlapping the leaf of the shutter, a pin extending from the crank-arm and dis posed above the shutter-leaf at a point between the shutter and pintle, a longitudinally-adjustable bar pivoted upon the pin of the crank-arm and extending through the passage in the window-frame, and a flat hori zontally-movable latch pivoted upon the bar and adapted to be swung to either side there- 10 of withitsfree end in contact with the win- Witnesses JAs. H. KEOGH, GILBERT W. PEcK. 

